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The Effective CIO: Fixing the New IT Problem

2013-05-22T11:20:50+00:00

In IT, we’ve been fixing company problems large and small for decades and meeting the challenges of highly technical demands, whatever they may be. But now we have a major problem of our own. It’s a labor shortage that’s nothing short of a crisis. And it demands the same kind of innovative solutions we’re used to delivering every day in our jobs. Mass media for some time has been bringing us the story of the IT shortage that looms before us. The headlines all...

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Integra Uses CA Network & Systems Monitoring to Help Assure Performance, Availability & Quality

2013-05-21T18:42:58+00:00

CA Performance Management Enables Service Provider to Enhance its Commitment to Offering an Exceptional Customer Experience CA Technologies has announced that Integra (F/K/A Integra Telecom), a provider of fiber-based, enterprise-grade networking, communications and technology solutions, has deployed CA Performance Management (CA PM), the core network and systems monitoring product in the company’s converged infrastructure management solution. Integra uses CA PM to monitor, analyze...

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Gartner Says IT Operations and Management Software Market Grew 4.8 Per cent in 2012

2013-05-21T15:23:30+00:00

Worldwide IT operations management (ITOM) software revenue totalled $18 billion in 2012, up 4.8 per cent from $17 billion in 2011, according to final results from Gartner, Inc. However, Gartner said that the "Big Four" ITOM vendors - IBM, CA Technologies, BMC Software and HP - surrendered market share in 2012, while a new generation of ITOM vendors grew significantly faster than the market. "Vendor revenue in the 2012 ITOM software market demonstrated moderate single-digit growth, after two...

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Syncsort’s New Data Integration Solutions Provide a Smarter Approach to Hadoop ETL

2013-05-20T17:02:33+00:00

Two New Hadoop Offerings and DMX Innovations Bring Benefits of Better ETL through Hadoop and Better Hadoop with Enhanced ETL Syncsort, a global leader in Big Data integration solutions, today announced the availability of its Spring '13 release, including two brand new Hadoop products and breakthrough enhancements to DMX that turn Hadoop into a more robust, feature rich and easy-to-use ETL solution. Big Data is prompting organizations to look at Hadoop to process more data in less...

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A Solid History of Mainframe Innovation Continues Through Storage and Networking Technologies

2013-05-20T13:19:47+00:00

An Interview With Lloyd Carney, CEO of Brocade Enterprise Executive recently caught up with Brocade Communications (Brocade) CEO Lloyd Carney to discuss the company’s long history of providing networking technologies supporting both ESCON and FICON, its relationship with IBM and growth opportunities in the mainframe market. Enterprise Executive: Lloyd, please tell us a little about Brocade. Lloyd Carney: Brocade is a company forged out of the data center that has delivered...

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Technical Insights: Double-Dip Your Mainframe CPU Savings With IDAA and zIIP

2013-05-20T10:22:46+00:00

There’s more than one way to save on CPU consumption. Moving workloads to System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) engines has been a popular option. However, many organizations are also exploring using IBM’s DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) as an option for lowering costs and optimizing the performance of the mainframe. IDAA is a specialty machine that offers faster and more predictable response times for long-running, unpredictable queries. It does this by reducing...

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CIO Perspective: Mainframes in the Mobile Space

2013-05-17T16:11:43+00:00

The University of Florida (UF) sought to help students stay connected with university activities and news. With 50,000 students and staff using smartphones—and that number rising quickly—the Gainesville, FL, university realized it needed to develop an information-rich mobile Web application. An IBM System z mobile technology solution provided the foundation for its UF Mobile Web. The heart of the UF Mobile Web is the Integrated Student Information System, which keeps students on...

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Sidebar for: New Technologies Help Bridge Gap Between Mobile and the Mainframe

2013-05-17T14:31:00+00:00

The IBM CICS Transaction Server Feature Pack for Mobile Extensions V1.0 Introduces Native Support for JSON Data in CICS Top 3 Mobile Concerns According to a 2011 “IBM Tech Trends Report,” these are the top concerns: 1. Security/Privacy (53 percent) 2. Cost of developing for multiplatform (52 percent) 3. Integrating cloud service with mobile (51 percent).

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New Technologies Help Bridge Gap Between Mobile and the Mainframe

2013-05-17T12:22:22+00:00

The IBM CICS Transaction Server Feature Pack for Mobile Extensions V1.0 Introduces Native Support for JSON Data in CICS The IT industry is undergoing a mobile transformation as the explosion of mobile devices in the marketplace has driven service providers, such as banks and utility companies, to offer mobile applications. The proliferation of mobile devices brings a new raft of challenges to application developers as they do battle with competing platforms, frameworks and...

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Linux on System z: Five Reasons Why You Should Consider System z for the Cloud

2013-05-16T17:21:44+00:00

As companies continue to rely on the cloud to deliver their more business-critical systems, they must consider how much they can trust this new paradigm. For a cloud solution to be robust enough to host the most important systems, it must be built on top of a virtualization stack that can deliver the necessary service levels. You may have in-house, non-cloud solutions that provide five 9s uptime and adhere to the strictest levels of security, but when moved to the cloud, public or private,...

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